Magnesium Supplements

Scientific studies reveal that magnesium supplements are able to reverse arthritis and osteoporosis!

If you are suffering from osteoarthritis, you know the truth about painful and swollen joints, and how this can hamper your everyday activities. Osteoarthritis is decribed as a overall wearing down of the joints, because of wear and tear. It is different than rheumatoid arthritis, which is a an autoimmune disease.

While there are certain medicines that will slow the progress of rheumatoid arthritis, there arent any available for osteoarthritis. Your physician may just prescribe a pain medication to eliviate the pain and that may be it. Anyone who has to live with osteoarthritis knows, taking pain medication on a dialy basis is no way to live your life.

However, there have been a lot of studies performed reciently that unquestionably demonstrate how magnesium supplements can not only reverse bone loss, but will literally rebuild your bone tissue. When magnesium supplements, in a 2:3 balanced ratio of calcium to magnesium are taken, the bone density has been reported to increase by up to an amazing 11% in only nine months!

Osteoarthritis is only the start. Osteoporosis follows right behind, where worn down bone and joint tissue start to deteriorate, which eventually results in the fractureing of bones (frequently the hip joints)

As we age it may seem inevitable that conditions such as osteoarthritis are to be expected. The fact is that, as we grow old, certain nutrients are not as easily absorbed. Magnesium is just one of these particular nutrients. Magnesium deficiency effects the hormone calcitonin, which results in calcium being deposited in soft tissue and not into your bones.

Diet plays a big role with osteoarthritis. Eating foods rich in calcium gives you strong bones, correct? To an extent. You have to balance your calcium intake with sufficient amount of magnesium. Because, excess calcium will stimulate the hormone, parathyroid (PTH), which directs your body to remove the calcium from your bones and deposit the excess in soft tissues. This process is also associated with arteriosclerosis. Magnesium supplements will restore a balanced hormone response, and therefore restore bone loss.

We are going to look at the diets in several parts of the world and compare the rates of arthritis and osteoporosis to prove the case for magnesium supplements as a natural remedy.

The average South African diet has a healthy 2:3 ratio of calcium to magnesium and the people in this country have one of the lowest rates of arthritis and osteoporosis in the world. The average American diet is very rich in calcium, and is usually a 10:1 calcium to magnesium ratio and we are afflicted with one of the highest rates of osteoporosis and arthritis in the entire world! In Asian and African cultures, these types of conditions are basically unheard of. The point is that when you have a high calcium intake and a low magnesium intake, these dangerous conditions are prevalent.

So what is the solution? Reduceing your calcium intake and taking a daily magnesium supplement of at least 600mg, can provide good results in as little as nine months.

If you are suffering because of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, or both of them, speak to your doctor and see if magnesium supplements aren't a excellent remedy that will get you off those annoying pain medications soon! When you do go, bring this information with you!